Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-16
OUR NEW PERFECTING PRESS.
The Finest, Fastest, and Costliest Per
fecting Printing Press in the West.

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The Finest, Fastest, and Costiest Per-
fecting Printing Press in the West.
On this page we give an illustration Of
the EAGLES new web perfecting press,
which has been pronounced by Mr.
James w. Scott, of the Chicago Herald,
(whose paper is printed on an older patent
of the same press, and who went down
to the factory in New Jersey to see this
press operate before it was shippeD to be
the finest and most perfect printing ma
chine ever manufactured for or shipped
to the west. which opinion was cOncurred
in by Mr. Stephenson, an expert press
man who has put up all kinds of printing
machines from single cylinder to ten
cylinder Hoe, and from hand htho-
graphing press to some Of the largest,
fastest perfecting machines in New York
City.
While the machine is very plain
and compact, as the illustration shows,
every cylinder, cam, stud, bearing
coz and roll are of steel, highly pol
ished and hardened. The machine is
twenty-one feet over all, eight feet wide.
seven feet high and weighs nineteen
tons. 1t was built by the great inventor
Walter Scott, and has attachments and
improvements which have been pro-
nounced more effective than on any Of
the presses built by him for the Chicago
papers. 1t was built to order for the
EAGLE and seven months time was con-
sumed in its construction. 1t prints
from continuous roll or web OF white
paper, sixteen hundred pages per min
ute or ninetv-six thousand per hour. 1t
prints folio paper or four page supple
ment and cuts and folds it at the rate of
twenty-five thousand per hour, or prints,
cuts, pastes, folds. counts and delivers
the eight pages of the EAGLE complete,
at the rate of from 10000 to $4,000 per
hour, or two hundred complete papers per
minute, being its usual performance.
The folder is a double machine, each
folder taking automatically every other
paper and delivering at separate de-
liveries.
AS this is the first perfecting machine
ever ordered from the state of Kansas
and the EAGLE the first paper ever
printed in the state from such a
machine, and as it has been pronounced
the finest by competent judges and eX-
perts ever shipped to the west, as it is by
far the costliest, it costing thousands of
dollars more than the Goss. Klaus, and
other like perfecting presses which are
really manufactured for country dailiCs
we thought it due our city and
patrons to print an illustration of it and
to say something additional to what was
said in the first issue which ii turned
or.
As many of the improvements on this
machine were entirely new, having never
been seen except in Mr.. SCOTS models at
the patent office. the fact that from the
minute the starting lever was first pulled
and the white paper sent rolling in at
one end at the rate of several miles an
hour. coming out at the other neatly
printed and folded EAGLES, no accident
or delay of any kind has occurred. seems
almost marvellous.
Until the EAGLE shall have passed the
notch of sixty thousand daily-which we
we hope will not be more than year or
two hence-we viii need no other or adj
ditional machine When we do we shall
simply duplicate the present press as
without doubt it is the finest, the best
ever vet constructed.